Anthony
Campolo, The Power Delusion
Too many times women are made to feel that they
should apologize for being mothers and housewives. In reality, such roles can
be noble callings. When I was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania
, there were gatherings from time to time to which faculty members brought
their spouses. Inevitably, some woman lawyer or sociologist would confront my
wife with the question, "And what is it that you do, my dear?"
My wife, who is one of the most brilliantly
articulate individuals I know, had a great response: "I am socializing two
homo sapiens in the dominant values of the Judeo-Christian tradition in order
that they might be instruments for the transformation of the social order into
the teleologically prescribed utopia inherent in the eschaton." When she
followed that with, "And what is it that you do?" the other person’s
"A lawyer" just wasn’t that overpowering.
Mothers are certainly a force of influence in
the lives of children.
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